Section 5: January 1938 – August 1939 (continued) Houses by the Sea The Beaches 1. I Not here our sands 2. II Island Bay, Orongorongo 3. III An absent face 4. IV Sands, sands of my father’s town 5. V This is my secret 6. VI Close under here 7. VII Cool and certain The Houses 8. I Old nursery chair 9. II On the asphalt a gas light pools 10. III Adolicus; that’s a creeper rug 11. IV Hares on their forms at dusk 12. V None of it true; for Christ’s sake 13. VI Section and brick and grass; 14. [VII] Here the caged voice 15. [VIII] But another and older music The People 16. I After we’d left off loving 17. II How she grew old 18. III How do I know? What a fool question! 19. IV But letting go . . . 20. V Now, in this place, I remember Faraway;

File — media-cabinet: 3, drawer: 2

Identifier: MSS. Archives. 2003/04. Series 1. File 1/27. File CD 5 of 5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Collection has been divided into 4 series of material. Series 1 includes sound discs, videocassette, and related materials gathered as part of the ongoing work of the nzepc (New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre). Amoung these are recordings of Helen Morse reading the poetry of Robin Hyde. Series 2 comprises of performances and Series 3 manuscripts in the form of Tapa notebooks which are gifted to poets usually travelling outside Auckland inviting them to return it when they are ready with ‘notations of value’ for deposit in this collection. Poets are then gifted a new blank notebook in recognition of the first gift of poetic labour. Series 4 contains interviews some including poetry readings.

Dates

2003 - 2003

Creator

From the Collection: Hyde, Robin (Person)
From the Collection: University of Auckland. Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (Organization)
From the Collection: Leggott, Michele J. (Person)
From the Collection: Edmond, Murray (Person)
From the Collection: Lindsay, Graham (Person)
From the Collection: Young, Mark (Person)
From the Collection: Abani, Chris (Person)
From the Collection: Avia, Tusiata (Person)
From the Collection: Bourke, Chris (Person)
From the Collection: Morse, Helen (Person)
From the Collection: Tranter, John E. (Person)
From the Collection: Mila, Karlo (Person)
From the Collection: New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (Organization)
From the Collection: New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (Organization)
From the Collection: Yang, Lian (Person)